So yes, this is the first chapter i have ever written as a fanfic, so reviews are greatly appreciated, even if they're negative, which i hope they aren't.
Disclaimer: i do not own NCIS or any of its characters
"Hi Kayleigh, how are you?" Kayleigh heard her friend Amy's voice, distorted down the phone line.
"Yeah I'm fine," Kayleigh lied "do you want to do something today Amy? I'm really bored; this English essay is just too dull for words"
"We always were like twins!" exclaimed Amy, excited "Yes, I would love to meet up! I don't care what we do, anything to get away from the black hole of English literature!" It didn't take a lot to please Amy; she was childish in that respect, as was Kayleigh.
"Agreed! Meet you outside yours in 10 minutes?"
"Yep, see you then"
The line went dead. Kayleigh sighed as she picked out something to wear; it had only just occurred to her that it was 12 o'clock and she was still wearing her tatty old trackies that she'd slept in the night before.
...
Tony walked into the bullpen and ditched his bag by his desk. Sitting down, he switched on his computer and began to check his mail. He looked up to see his boss above him.
"Tony, you're late"
"Yeah, sorry boss, I...er...got...well...you see...the...the..."
"Will you just spit it out DiNozzo?" Gibbs growled
"I overslept" mumbled Tony
"By 4 hours?!" asked Gibbs, astounded.
"Yeah, well, I may have had slightly too much to drink last night..." Tony tailed off.
"Well why didn't you just say so? Anyway, we have a sexual harassment lecture, so get your butt upstairs."
"I'd rather not Boss. I have notes to write up and..."
"DiNozzo, what was it in my tone of voice that made that seem like a request? GO!"
"Gibbs, no! Please? Oh come on, you know how boring these things are!"
"DiNozzo?!" Gibbs was incredulous.
"I'm going, I'm going!"
"Good. I will see you later then"
"And where are you going to be then?"
"At my desk" said Gibbs, simply
"Why?"
"Because I, unlike some of the primitive animals I work with, like to do my work at my desk"
"Well why can't I do work at my desk?"
"Because you have a lecture to go to" said Gibbs, like he'd just been asked the most stupid question.
...
"Kayleigh, we ALWAYS go to the cinema. I swear we've seen every film there is to see at the moment. Why don't we just go into the woods with Dodger?"
"Ok why not. Just to clear it up, there is a new film out, but it's a horror. I don't really want to see it, truth be told."
"See, you are learning; there is more to life than the cinema"
As they walked through the woods, carefree, neither of the two girls said a word. It wasn't awkward, they were such close friends that they could stay like this for hours without feeling remotely awkward, as each girl had lots on her mind. Amy thought about how the times had changed; when they were younger, they used to sit there playing with Barbie dolls, and now they were in their last year at school!
Kayleigh had something more worrying on her mind. Yes, her dad was a marine, but that didn't explain why he hadn't come home the previous evening. It didn't bother her to be alone, but not knowing where her dad was worried her slightly. It just left her feeling on edge, though it wasn't the first time this had happened, but in the past, she always got a text or a call to warn her that he wasn't coming home. This had a bitter feeling to it.
...
Kate was woken up from her daze by someone tapping her on the shoulder.
"Kate. Kate!" whispered Gibbs.
"What?" Kate questioned.
"Get out, and gear up, we have some marines who've gone UA"
Kate scrambled to her feet to follow Gibbs and then elbowed Tony in the ribs, on second thoughts. He woke with a start.
"Kate, what the hell was that for?" Tony growled, angrily.
"Do you want to get out of this or not, DiNozzo?"
"How do we escape?" asked tony, interested now.
"We don't escape, we have a case of marines gone UA to check out" explained Kate, bored.
"Oh. Well anything is better than this, it's gotta be said."
...
Amy and Kayleigh reached a small clearing in the middle of the woods behind their houses (they lived in the same road), and they let Dodger off his lead. As he began to run around madly, like the crazy puppy he was, the sat down on the grass and chatted.
"It reminds me of the old times" Kayleigh speculated
"Yeah, we used to play here all the time when we wanted an outlet from everyday life. Which, admittedly, was most of the time..."
"And we used to climb that tree in the corner and..." Kayleigh trailed off and looked at Amy mischievously.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Amy grinned.
"Depends, are you thinking what I think you're thinking?" Kayleigh retorted with a wicked smirk.
The two girls jumped up and charged across the clearing, with Dodger barking along behind them, hot on their heels. Giggling and generally acting childish, the girls shoved each other out the way and raced to climb to the best spot in the tree. Kayleigh got there first, only to be pushed out the way by Amy. Taken totally by surprise, Kayleigh fell out the tree, about 12 feet up and plunged towards the ground. Amy watched on in absolute horror. As she looked down, Kayleigh looked up at her, a pained expression on her face.
"Are you ok Kayleigh?" Amy yelled, anxiously.
"Yeah I...owww...maybe not!"
"Wait there. Don't move, I'm climbing down"
"I think we may be a bit old and big to be playing in these trees now" Kayleigh remarked.
"That is probably true. But who wants to grow up?!" retorted Amy, now on the ground walking towards Kayleigh. "Are you ok?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, it's probably only..."
"what?" asked Amy, as Kayleigh looked past her shoulders to something behind her.
"I think...i think...oh crap, look at that" exclaimed Kayleigh, pointing at a lump behind Amy. Amy looked closer, and what she saw made her scream and scramble backwards. Her scream alerted her trusty dog, who began barking furiously at the sound.
i hope this wasnt too bad, i would like to promise that all will improve as i get more confident with the whole writing thing. please reveiw, because i really want to know what people think of it. thank you